United Steelworkers Union members have been locked out of their jobs at the Allegheny Technologies, Inc. plant in Midland since August. In the beginning, workers were optimistic that they would be able to return to the job soon. As the months go by, many workers have taken other, lower paying, jobs and those who were still holding out hope of returning to ATI are being given reason to doubt that will happen as rumors of the plant soon idling spread.